This adventurous show, originally performed as a
concert by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (in conjunction with Playbox), is
available as a stage musical for performances by both schools and musical
societies.

SILAS MARNER is a musical
adaption of the George Eliot novel of the trials and tribulations of a miserly
weaver, set amidst the stirrings of the Industrial Revolution.

“Silas is a curious but
undeniably effective hybrid of an opera, musical, church parable and even
Baroque passion. What strikes you first is its sheer melodiousness. Goodall
manages to turn out one thumping good tune after another… The melodies are
strong, singable and hummable, but never trite.” The Times on the concert
performance of SILAS MARNER at the Salisbury Festival in September 1993.

The piece opens with a man telling his brother a
story; “Once, in a village by the sea, there was a blind soldier, three brave
children who found him in the woods, and a silver donkey that brought him
luck”. The village comes alive, there is a war being fought just down the road,
but village life continues on as normal.

Marcelle, ten, and her little sister Coco find a
blind soldier in the forest. He is trying to get home to his sick brother
across the sea. He has a charm in the shape of a silver donkey, and tells them
a story. Stories and songs include "Road to Bethlehem", "Waiting
for the Rain" and "Cliffs of a Foreign Land".

The New York
Journal-American, called SIMPLY HEAVENLY "…a treat. This story by Langston
Hughes, based on his novels about Jesse B. Semple, a Joe Doakes Harlemite,
seems…to capture the color and the humor and poetry of these
neighbors-to-the-North as no outlander could imitate. This is the story of the
New York Negro written from the inside out; it is a happy and exciting evening.
There is a mood and a temper about this show that is unique." The New York
Post describes the play: "It possesses such unhackneyed freshness and
cheeriness of spirit, such humorous decency and regard for the human spirit,
that, as offered last night at the 85th Street Playhouse, it was a real
delight. Its great merit is that Mr. Hughes contemplates the people he is
writing about with a respect that never becomes patronizing or stuffy and
always retains its sense of humor."

Sing On Through Tomorrow is a musical revue featuring the most acclaimed songs from Matthew Lee Robinson's early catalogue. From his critically lauded first musical Metro Street through to the new musical Happy People, Sing On Through Tomorrow tells the story of four thirty-somethings who must travel back in time to rediscover a new way to step forward.